Something Fishy Coming To Blockchain, Future of Fish Travel Secured

An unusual and unexpected issue with transporting fish across the globe could be solved with an even more surprising use of technology, as those shipping seafood are looking to implement Blockchain to keep record shipments. It is a little disconcerting to learn that an epidemic of mislabeling plagues the shipping businesses that haul fish and seafood. It has been estimated, over the last decade, that 30 percent of seafood shipped globally is being mislabeled. In fact, certain fish such as snapper, perch and grouper were incorrectly labeled around 80 percent of the time making it almost....

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Big Fish Games has teamed up with Coinbase to bring bitcoin payments to its extensive line-up of casual games. This small, private company is a relatively big player in the casual gaming arena and is the publisher of the Mystery Case franchise and Big Fish Casino, along with over 3,000 casual games from more than 500 developers. Although the company isn't as big as Zynga, it serves over 1,500,000 downloads a day and it has 700 employees. Big Fish Games allows users to try the games before they make the purchase and many of its games allow traders to buy and sell virtual items. Cutting....

Following (somewhat) in the footsteps of Zynga, Big Fish Games is reportedly embracing bitcoin, only they're not just testing it. They're fully implementing it into the 3,000 games in their portfolio, according to VentureBeat. "It's a fun project, and it makes sense," company CEO Paul Thelen said to GamesBeat. Big Fish began looking into accepting bitcoin thanks to an engineer on the team who is also a bitcoin enthusiast, and here we are today. Frankly, move makes sense from multiple angles. For bitcoin enthusiasts, they'll be able to easily make purchases using their digital currency. And....

Vietnam's first Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoin Vietnam today announced that Future. Travel has become the first business in Vietnam to accept Bitcoin in payments. Future. Travel is a Ho Chi Minh City-based travel agency and provides services such as flight tickets, cruises, tours and hotel accommodations. Users can now make payments for flight tickets using bitcoin on the website while other services will be handled via offline mode. This is a start, and a good start! General Director of Bitcoin Vietnam Dominik Weil said, "Bitcoin Vietnam's exchange was set up last year to help service what is....

Just prior to the height of the holiday spirit, Namecoin developers got a special surprise in their wallets courtesy of not-so-secret Santa, Discus Fish. Also known as F2Pool, Discus Fish provided the developers with 20,000 Namecoins to fund a reimplementation based on mainline Bitcoin. According to the developer blog, Christmas officially came early for Namecoin. "What's more is that chief Namecoin scientist Daniel Kraft has been working so hard that the code is already usable! Indeed, Discus Fish has been using it in production for a few weeks." The code is still in the experimental....

The term "whale" is frequently used to describe the big money Bitcoin players that show their hand in the Bitcoin market. The ocean as a metaphor for the market is apt, since one can then extend it to include the big fish and the small fish; sharks; rallies as feeding frenzies; waves as market moves; and so forth. It may be, however, that the term "whale" has been applied to the wrong class of investor because the players described below are truly the biggest creatures in the ocean. Bitcoin Dolphins. They show themselves in the exchanges with orders of 1000 BTC, every now and again, and....

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